Atlanta Daily World

Noted Dramatist In Review Of Book On Y. W. C. A. Program

On Tuesday evening, at the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the YWCA, Miss Anne Cooke of Atlanta university delightfully entertained many book lovers with her review of Vaughn Wilkins "And So Victoria."

The novel was well portrayed as one seething with emotions of love, hate and fear. There was also a vivid display of political intrigue, incest, murder and greed between the numerous relatives of the great English Hanover family.

The outstanding character, Christopher, whose illegitimate status in the royal clan made him a valuable and much sought after person for the use of political trickery. As his life was portrayed by Miss Cooke, one was somehow reminded of Freddie Bartholomew's characterization of David Copperfield.

The introduction of a white family from Alabama and their Negro servants in Wales was something of an unexpected slant in Vaughn Wilkins first novel. For his effort at writing a historical novel, the southern whites and Negroes seemed a little out of line in their particular foreign atmosphere. It was this latter angle of the novel which drew questions from the appreciative listeners after the literary interpretation was completed.

Musical numbers were rendered by Mr. B. J Anderson, of Morehouse college and Mr. Hubert Johnson, a teacher of David T. Howard school.